Question follow-through · 49973

Animal Experiments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) collect and (b) publish annual statistics on the number of animals bred for scientific purposes but not used in scientific procedures.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 May 2025
Target answer date: 7 May 2025
Answer: 13 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) collect and (b) publish annual statistics on the number of animals bred for scientific purposes but not used in scientific procedures.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is presently reviewing the collection and publication of additional statistics on animals that were bred but not used in scientific procedures.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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